Stephen Hawking: Alien but primitive life likely: "WASHINGTON - Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says."

Pretty short on details, but it's interesting to see that I share my view on aliens with Stephen Hawking. I usually state is as "all we need to do is find ONE extraterrestrial bacterium and it changes everything," but his quote from the article of "primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare" is essentially the same sentiment.